Dr Daniel Collado-Ruiz

Dr. Daniel Collado-Ruiz enables and empowers professionals with a pragmatical approach to sustainability, innovation, entrepreneurship, coaching, public speaking, training and consulting. He has coached and trained hundreds of people in over a dozen countries, in five continents. He is responsible of product at Earthster. Before that he was CEO at Nestholma, organising startup accelerator programmes for corporations; entrepreneur at Nurtup developing innovation games; and Associate Professor at Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia.

He combines this with a strong academic past (10 years experience researching at Universitat Politècnica de València). Holding a Ph.D in Development, Sustainability, and Ecodesign, he has worked in projects related to design for sustainability and life cycle assessment in the packaging, toy, and electronic sectors in the research group Integration of Design & Environmental Assessment (ID&EA). Daniel has also conducted research in ecoinnovation, sustainability, creativity and distributed teamwork, and given lectures at different universities around the world.